Respelling of Norwegian Sæter, a common habitational name
from any of numerous farmsteads named Sæter, named with Old Norse
sætr, setr ‘farm’. In more recent formations it means
‘mountain farm’, ‘summer dairy’.
Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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